Orange Mound land trust breaks ground on first of a dozen new homes
Renderings are shown Sept. 8 for new homes through the Orange Mound Community Land Trust pilot program. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The first new home is on Marechalneil Street near Deadrick Avenue and supports Mayor Paul Young's goal of 10,000 new or renovated affordable housing units by 2030.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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